Hi Ada, That's very interesting, thank you, especially as I have a couple of great great uncles of my husband who seem to have disappeared from Victorian records after the 1909 electoral rolls. All I know is that they were born in the 1870s and died before their mother did in 1936, according to her death certificate. There is one possibility for one of them in the WA BDM online records, but does anyone know if there is any other alternative to paying $30 for a certificate on the very slight chance that it might just be the person I'm looking for? There's a death in WA under the name of the other brother also, but the date is 1938, so that's a little late it seems. Jo

I sympathise with those using the WA BDM indexes to try and locate rellies who *may* have gone over there and either passed away or married. While the WA certificates are pretty good, the indexes are shockers. the older of the tworobbos